Caleb Harper, a principal research scientist at the MIT Media Lab, claimed to have built a “personal food computer” that can grow any plant in a small, controlled environment. He also claimed to have ...

Caleb Harper, principal investigator and director of the Open Agriculture initiative at the MIT Media Lab. Kent Larson courtesy of MIT Media Lab In his book Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial ...

Personal food computers (PFCs) developed by the Open Agricultural Initiative in MIT's Media Lab and sent to Syrian refugee camps in Amman, Jordan have been revealed to be nonfunctional, according to ...

The prestigious multidisciplinary MIT Media Lab built a “personal food computer” that worked so poorly that demos had to be faked Theranos-style, per a weekend report in Business Insider. Word of the ...

KETCHUM — Lowie Watkins, a Hemingway Elementary fourth-grader, had something to say. Teacher Lydia Flynn said she had shown her classes Caleb Harper’s Ted Talk about “food computers,” and Lowie took a ...

Personal Food Computers (PFC_EDUs) pair controlled-environment agriculture with open-source data sharing. The growth chambers are inexpensive and easily deployed, ideal for educators and makers. Users ...